Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun] from the [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The cross town route one of seven schemes in the county under threat was expected to attract £2m from the EC towards the £8m needed for the first stage of the road , between McMullen Road and Darlington 's southern bypass . |
| 2 | Colonel Lord C had decided to recall Sylvia from the USA , as he had become increasingly worried about Madeleine and Jeanne in Paris . |
| 3 | A compromise Swedish scheme , incorporating elements of both the EC and the US- " Cairns Group " proposals , failed to win support from the EC , Japan and South Korea [ see p. 37930 ] . |
| 4 | Oxfordshire District Health Authority has confirmed it will want to buy services from the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre if it achieves self-governing status . |
| 5 | The 30-year-old striker , who used to support Liverpool from the Kop , said : ‘ It 's always been my dream to score against them . ’ |
| 6 | Desperate to cling to power , it had agreed to accept help from the US . |
| 7 | Among her other political activities , she sympathised with the Boers and visited St. Helena when it was used to house prisoners from the South African War . |
| 8 | The latter Liverpool-based agency , which offers electro-acupuncture treatment to drug-dependent people , opened in December 1985 , and soon began to attract clients from the Wirral area . |
| 9 | He alleged the ‘ deliberate distortion ’ was employed to deflect attention from the Dublin Government 's ‘ ambivalent attitude to terrorism ’ . |
| 10 | The British government — and a substantial number of British citizens — effectively opted to exclude Blacks from the United Kingdom and deny them their rights to live as equals with other British subjects . |
| 11 | The scheme , for which Greece has applied for Ecu80 million in funding from the EC , aims to divert water from the Acheloos river to irrigate agricultural land on the Plain of Thessaly . |
| 12 | A simple but effective example of its very artificiality occurs in Marnie ( 1964 ) when , towards the end , Marnie ( Tippi Hedren ) tries to steal money from the Rutland and Co. safe ; her simultaneous attraction and repulsion is shown by rapid zooms in and out , brief and repeated . |
| 13 | INVERLEITH , who are currently fighting to avoid relegation from the Torrie Stockbrokers National Men 's Hockey League , yesterday received news they could well have done without . |
| 14 | Every time the pollsters asked them to list the issues that most concerned them , the Scots obstinately placed those matters that fail to excite emissaries from the London media at the top — unemployment , the NHS , education — just as in comparable parts of the UK . |
| 15 | Many other industrial projects never got off the ground due to energy shortages , and Ghana has been forced to import power from the Ivory Coast . |
| 16 | This country was bankrupt , and had to borrow money from the United States of America to keep going , and er , Russia had just had a revolution and was still in chaos . |
| 17 | Israel continued to reject requests from the United States to freeze its policy of settlement in the occupied territories [ see pp. 38309-10 ] . |
| 18 | The terms of reference of the Northern Ireland Panel were to commission a programme of research on Northern Ireland within a budget of £350,000 ( 1980 Survey Prices ) ; to consider how the social science research capacity for work on this area , particularly within Northern Ireland , might be enhanced in the commission of that programme ; to commission a register of recent and current research on Northern Ireland ; to liaise with the Northern Ireland Office and other relevant agencies with research requirements ; to establish links with relevant agencies with research requirements ; to establish links with relevant researchers in Great Britain and other countries with a view to the possibility of setting up comparative studies ; and to advise researchers in Northern Ireland , who wish to seek finance from the ESRC general research funds or from other agencies . |